A few weeks ago, I wrote about keeping perspective on your work in the spring months, when we get more than the usual amount of letters about how our work is not quite right for this production or that prize. It’s particularly difficult with the growing number of “rejection by announcement” notifications, the […]
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DURING REJECTION SEASON, A REMINDER ABOUT PERSPECTIVE PART #2
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RIPP #44: PATRICK DOOLEY, FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, SHOTGUN PLAYERS
If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here to get some context before reading. From PATRICK DOOLEY, FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, SHOTGUN PLAYERS “What playwrights and directors need to do is find each other. Directors come to me and say ‘I want to direct for you,’ […]
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RIPP #43: JUNE BALLINGER, EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, PASSAGE THEATRE COMPANY
If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here to get some context before reading. From JUNE BALLINGER, EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, PASSAGE THEATRE COMPANY “We actually just changed our submission process [Passage no longer accepts unsolicited submissions] as we get so many submissions, we simply do not […]
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RIPP #42: MARISSA WOLF, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CROWDED FIRE
If you don’t know what RIPP: Real Inspiration for Playwrights Project is about, please click here to get some context before reading. From MARISSA WOLF, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, CROWDED FIRE “We recently produced the West Coast Premiere of The Bereaved by Thomas Bradshaw. The first time I read a Thomas Bradshaw play in 2009, I tore […]
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TRADE A PLAY TUESDAY GUIDELINES
TRADE A PLAY TUESDAY (#TAPT) IS STILL CURRENT AND HAPPENING AS LONG AS THIS NOTICE IS HERE. Please remember, #TAPT is for short plays and scenes only. If you have full-length plays you’d like feedback for, please review the guidelines for Playwrights Offering Free Feedback (#POFF). One Tuesday, in January 2014, I […]